Laurence L. Shaw was a well-known Oregon timber man and philanthropist. Together with his wife Dorothy he founded the Shaw Historical Library at Oregon Institute of Technology. Collection contains a handwritten note from Laurence Shaw to a Chairman of the Journal Committee on a subject of including 2 stories in the next issue of the journal.

Francis S. “Van” Landrum was a businessman and self-taught structural engineer/land surveyor in Klamath Falls, Oregon, as well as a noted amateur historian and author. Collection contains an envelope with a short note about Bristle Cone Pine and needles, wrapped in a napkin.